Improved toilet-mirror



G/H. OHINNOGK & E, P. WILLIAMS.

TOILET MIRROR No. 103,980. Patehted June 7, 1870.

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GEORGE H. OHINNOCK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., AND EDWARD P. WILLIAMS,

OF ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY.

Letters Patent No. 103,980, dated June i, 1870.

IMPROVED TOILET-MIRROR.

---0 The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same.

Be it known that we, GEORGE H. Gnrxxocx, of the city, county, and Stateof New York, and ED- WARD P. WILLIAMs, of Elizabeth, Union county, inthe State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement inToilet-Mirrors; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing forming apart of this specification, in whichFigure 1' is a. side view ofa toilet-mirror.

Figure 2 is a plan of the joint and cap which connect the mirror withthe supporting-pillar or stand.

Figure 3 is a side view of thecap detached.

Figure 4 is top view of the same.

Figure 5 is a vertical section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts .in theseveral figures.

-This-invention relates to the means of producing friction in the jointby which the mirror is attached to the arm of the cap of thesupporting-pillar or stand,

whereby the adjustment of the mirror at various inclinations is providedfor, and theadjustment at any,

inclination is secured and It consists in an elastic construction of thearm of the cap.

v A Aarc rectangular plates secured firmly, by screws or otherwise, tothe back of the mirror 0, for the purpose of receiving between them thearm a a of the cap 15 of the supportingpillar or stand I). These platesA A and the arm a a of the cap' have inserted through them the pivot 0,upon which the glass is capable of swinging vertically, to provide forits adjustment at various inclinations.

Thecap B is represented as constructed of a single piece of steel plate,bent attbe middle of its length to form an eye, e, which fits theupright pin or pivot b, provided on the top of the standD, and havingthe portions a :1 beyond this eye s0 bent or shaped that, in theirnormal condition, they curve or incline outward from each other, asshown in fig. 4. These-portions (1- a form an elastic arm to the cap,and, when embraced between the plates A A, they are so drawn together,either by riveting the ends of the prvot, or by a screw on the pivot, orby otherwise setting up the plates A A toward each other that, by theirown elasticity and tendency to straighten themselves, they producesntlicient friction between their outer surfaces and the inner surfacesof the plates A A torctain the mirror at any inclination at which it maybe placeu, but yet permit the inclination to be variously adjusted.

It is preferable that the two'portions (a a of the elastic arm be madeconcave around the pivot-holes ff, as shown in fig. 5. 'ihis enablesthem to exert a greater pressure and friction against the plates A A.

Instead of the two portions of the elastic arm of the cap beingconstructed so that they tend to spring apart, they may be soconstructed that they tend to spring together, in which case they mayreceive between them the platesA A, or asingle plate attached to theback of the mirror as a substitute for the said plat-cs, and in suchcase the elastic arm will clamp itself upon the exterior of the saidplate orplates, and, by its elasticity, produce the necessary frictionto hold the mirror in essentially the same manner as the elastic armrepresented in the drawing.

The eye of the cap may be fitted to swing upon the pin or pivot I),to'permita horizontal movement; of

the mirror, or may be so fitted to the top of'the stand as not toprovide t'or'such horizontal movement.

\Vhat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The arms a. of the cap B, constructed of a curved and concavo-convcxform, for operation in the manner essentially as shown and described.

GEORGE H. OHINNOCK; EDWARD P. WILLIAMS. Witnesses:

' FRED. Harms,

ARTHUR Kimrnn.

